-changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
+changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
+ * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
+ Lichteblau)
+ * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
+ more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
+ related to the ~@F format directive.
+ * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
+ Hanche-Olsen)
+ * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
+ dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
+ * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
+ by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
+ Euler)
+ * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
+ by Svein Ove Aas)
+ * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
+ coerce function designators to functions.
+ * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
+ CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
+ * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
+ the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
+ * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
+ fixnums no longer create extra rationals
* fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
start of the buffer at the next read.
+ ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
+ passing it through to OPEN.
+ ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
+ argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
+ ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
+ ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
+ STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
+ boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
+ * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
+ ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
+ correctly.
+ ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
+ the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
+ ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
+ ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
+ for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+ * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+ ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
+ secondary constituent character trait.
+ ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
+ syntax.
+ ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
+ normal termination.
+ ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
+ works more reliably.
changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
* new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux